Arrigo Colombo

Italian film producer

Arrigo Colombo
Born	1916 Italy
Died	1998 (aged 81–82)
Occupation	Film producer

Arrigo Colombo (1916–1998) was an Italian film producer.

He founded Jolly Film with Giorgio Papi,^[1] which produced Duello nel Texas (1963).^[2]

Arrigo Colombo and Giorgio Papi hired Sergio Leone to direct A Fistful of Dollars (1964) with a budget of 200.000 dollars.^[3] He was the only one who accepted the project by Giuliano Montaldo Sacco e Vanzetti (1971).^[4]

Filmography

As producer

La viuda indomable (1978)
Seven Beauties (1975)
The Master and Margaret (1972)
Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)
Violent City (1970)
Grand Slam (1967)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Los motorizados (1962)
Inspector Maigret (1958)
The Intruder (1956)
On Trial (1954)
I'm the Capataz (1951)

As writer

More Dollars for the MacGregors (1970)
Requiem for a Gringo (1968)
La duchessa di Santa Lucia (1959)
Under the Southern Cross (1938)

As director

Black Magic (1949)

References

^ Calapà, Giampiero (18 May 2014). "Per un pugno di dollari, ecco come il film di Sergio Leone è diventato leggenda". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). Retrieved 24 April 2019.
^ Lucini, Gianni (21 August 2017). "L'ultimo western italiano prima di Leone". Daily Green (in Italian). Retrieved 24 April 2019.
^ Torre, Franco (30 June 2014). "El Oeste no es lugar para guapos". La Opinión de Zamora (in Spanish). Prensa Ibérica. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
^ Biscontini, Luca (2 December 2018). "Stasera in tv su Rai Storia alle 21,10 Sacco e Vanzetti di Giuliano Montaldo, con Gian Maria Volonté e Riccardo Cucciolla". Taxidrivers. Disqus. Retrieved 24 April 2019.